Why not learn more from native people, and from people from the Far East. Spirituality is clearly the way to go, educate people and the best thing we can all start right now with the Art of Living. If not for others, it will save your own peace of mind & give joy and please & babes!!:
That's why I laugh when people spot human-sized UFO craft. If there are UFOs here, they're microscopic.
Assumptions are just that, assumptions. You can laugh all you want, but to me, it just shows one more scientific dogma. The attitude of "knowing it all" is sadly very prevalent here on Slashdot, and probably why so many spend time writing here, instead of discovering new stuff.
The problem is lack of creativity. In 0.5 seconds, I thought of nano-UFOs. Send one, or trillions of those, and let them dig into a moon or planet to rebuilt itself into a fully fledged macro-sized "UFO". Or, maybe if you want to "recreate yourself in your own image", why not send out organic "bombs"? Etc. etc. There are so many possibilities when you dont restrict your mind.
Just because you cant think of it, doesnt mean it isnt possible or thinkable. Please free your mind! There is so much more to know than we already know! And instead of giving focus to more effective ways to kill people, why not science of life?
It used to be the opposite you know. Global Warming scientists used to have a very hard time getting grants in the 80s and beginning og the 90s. The entrenched opinion at the time, especially in the US senate and commercial sector, was that anybody researching Global Warming was an environmental nutjob. The opinion in the leadership of USA (not population mind you) was so strong, they passed up on the Kyoto agreement and other global initiatives, claiming these measures would cost too much.
Its incredible how few people is able to look at something dispassionately, which is the only way to reach an objective conclusion. Scientists of all should know that, but fail, just as much as religious fanatics do sometimes.
Fact is, and native indians and aboriginals have mentioned this for the past hundred years: Our way of living is slowly suffocating this planet. Man has managed to survive for the past ten thousands of years, maybe millions, but now were reaching a critical point. We need to grow respect for the planet, for our environment, eachother and ourselves. We need to learn from those who are wise.
Please, do not make sequels of these games. Ive stopped gaming and am now happily enjoying yoga and meditation. My life is now complete and perfect, please, please dont botch it for me now!
Ultima Underworld I & II Star Control I & II Another World
Best games ever. If they ever come in a decent sequel, I will have to start playing again:(
Yeah, well, if they continue to hold it up, it may not get a chance due to lack of patients.
Uh, the medical companies are thriving on sickness, not health.
Instead of Health Care, it should be called Sickness & Death Care. Norwegians got it right: Sykehus - Sick Homes. Its just that people dont realize what theyre really going to..
Maybe then people would open their eyes and start caring for their body and mind through Yoga. The best medicine has always been prevention, care and happiness, and always will. Much of the pharmaceutical industry is really just a parasite.
Reading all this makes me SOO happy I am vegetarian. And I`m going to eat a lot more organic/ecologic/biodynamic food. It tastes better and do the body better.
The rest of you are setting yourselves up for a big mess, but what can we say. You`re ridiculing what you don`t understand and using technology just because you can, like a little child with a big gun.
"I hate to say this and break your rose colored glasses but those rich CEOs living in their mansions, driving cars that cost more then you will make in ten years are not miserable."
They may not be miserable now. But do true happiness and joy rely on material comfort and a jet-set life? True joy will not rely on something external, because when that one day disappears, it turns into misery.
I`ve visited cities in India where people have been begging for money for food and clothes, yet, there`s a liveliness, an innocence and a spark of joy that is very rare in Western countries. They are begging, as a profession, not fighting for survival. Everyone gets food and rarely do you see someone completely forgotten.
Now, nothing of these circumstances are better than the others. But clearly, when you have knowledge of yourself and how your own mind works, you can better cope with life and find true joy, regardless of how rich or poor you are. The poor people have to do this more, because their life depends so much more on their relatives, friends and neighbours. But we, being rich, really have the opportunity to use our resources and use more time to explore ourselves fully.
Whenever someone speaks of truth, it is not meant in terms of rules - what you can do, or can`t do. But rather, cause and effect.
Just like hitting your head with a hammer will cause pain, so do actions which are often associated with guilt and remorse.
What has been done to death is to take what someone says as a rule, and then forgo common sense - yes, even feel guily for not doing what other people say! However, any text should be understood to open your mind, not close it. Someone who makes you aware of your freedom, will not tell you what you can`t do, but will tell you that hammering your own head is the source of pain.
If you chose to lie, you deceieve others. You push a view on them that twists them from the truth, from reality.
You have then already lost. Whatever you think you can win that is not based on truth, will not prevail and will always be there in the back haunting you. Any pleasure you get out of it will come with a hook, back to the shady past.
Truth will set people free. Basically, the only evil, or rather the ignorance, in this world is when people believe the means justifies the ends. Nobody kills or steals just out of spite, or if they do, they have some serious hurt they are not able to cope with. Such self-destructive behaviour should be pitied and helped, not condemned or judged. Jesus allegedly said: For you shall yourself be judged - or put another way: When you judge others, you will judge yourself just as harsh - it's just that time makes the illusion of it not already happening.
What I`m missing here is some clarity to the solution. It seems what they are doing is extending their patents, by adding a few claims to something which has already been covered by a patent. Like added a Gel Capsule to a pill, and then patent that. Clearly, this is not something "novel", and therefore not patentable. This practice of patents, which is happening in every industry infested by patents clearly needs to stop. Why should I be able to have a government granted monopoly for 20 years, and then be able to extend that by merely adding a Gel Capsule? That`s 20+20 years for basically the same pill!
More common sense into law. Law was never meant to be a ruleset that would split people, but it has always been misused in such manners. That`s what we need to fight tooth and nail!
Another suggestion is to have different patent-laws according to industry. Clearly pharmaseuticals need more protection than software, which is already protected through copyright. This means that the period of the patents can differ, say, like 15 years for medicals and max 5 years for software, if ever for software. (RSA comes to mind as one of the few ones in the software field)
You also need to define what is really a novel invention worth protecting, for every industry.
A patent should never be allowed to exist if there is impossible to construct an alternative, ie. the patent is protecting the _idea_, and not the implementation. If such patents, they should be voided on that reason.
The Patent Office should stop being an income source for the Government, and should get _more_ money from dismissing patents than from granting them.
These are just suggestions, but something very drastic needs to be done. How can we live with such a medieval system that spurs greed and hinders inventions? Something must be done now!
Not everyone can become a success by marketshare and hype alone, and then never deliver the actual promised products. For most of us, failure is just another step towards success. So even if this $100 laptop becomes a failure, it doesn't matter. More exposure towards the poorer countries, more exposure that the Western countries take more money OUT of such countries, than is going in, more exposure to corrupt leaders which makes any sudden fix unattainable, and lots and lots learned from the project, which can result in even cheaper laptops with higher specs.
It's too easy to criticize when someone does good. That to actually do good in this world, you have to fight, and fight, and fight, and fight. And we get stronger every day.
It is all just One. Within time, creating both the casual observer, and her false illusion to be one of many.
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
John lives in Norway. He's still having problems travelling to USA because of his "crimes" (making a GUI for a DVD-decrypter... Someone else broke the actual code).
With Infosoc (can you say "1984"?) and other laws being passed in EU, which Norway adopts per default, it is not hard to imagine this can soon be illegal in Norway too, though I'm not sure how the law is right now.
I'd also just like to add, that vedic science, being a science based on logic, observation and testable results as well as intuitive knowledge (which maybe not so testable today because of our lack of consciousness), does not deal with dogmatic prescriptions: eat this, don't eat that. etc. This may change due to circumstances, so there's never one way to do things.
It is originally more of a scientific description of cause and effect. That if you pull the trigger while pointing at your toe, it will hurt alot;*) Or if you take care of your body and mind (and HOW to do it), things will run more smoothly and you will have more energy to impress people and make things happen (with experience and good intentions at least). It is overall cheaper and more comfortable, than relying on doctors, pills and surgery.
The law of karma is also very simple. That whatever you do to other people, will come back to you one day. If you hurt other people, your will become paranoid and tense, ultimately poisoning your own body-mind system. While if you heal other people, your own growth will be exponential and you will learn to know unconditional love.
Many people are lost in the ideas of dogmatic beliefs and superstition, which is limiting consciouness and way of life. Maybe some people need a security-blanket, but it doesn't create peace on earth - or in the minds of people;*)
Those who reads this will be few, but I just want to get this down to clear my own thoughts on the matter. =)
I understand that the Vedic diets are NOT a protection against this. When they were developed in India the grain had enough insect parts and animal droppings to provide the required levels of B12. (Indeed, it still may.) But under US food inspection laws such contaminants are so vigorously suppressed (to prevent disease from bacteria and parasites) that these same diets become dangerously low in B12.
There are many different thoughts on Ayurveda. Some ayurvedic doctors recommend eating meat (usually due to personal preference), while others, recommend eating vegetarian (especially combined with yoga/meditation). If you're sick, anyone of them might recommend eating meat in order to restore the body more quickly in some circumstances. Jains are strictly non-violent, and will not use animal clothing, and only eat fallen fruit. Different people, different needs I guess..
Cows are also considered holy in India, and milk consumed on a high level. However, it has been known that cows milk is not very digestable, so an ayurvedic practitioner will likely recommend to heat it up a bit before consumation. I usually do this myself, although not when eating ice-cream;)
Besides from milk, cheese and egg, you may also get B12 from Spirulina, from which Bramhulst (a juice company in Europe) sells fresh juice, or you can buy them in capsules (not as easy for the body to absorb though). Spirulina will also help cleaning out heavy metals from the body.
One thing to understand is however, that there is not one ayurveda, or one vedic knowledge. It is a huge compilation of different books/verses of humongous magnitude, most of them gone in time. There are many different ways to practice it, some twarted by superstition and power-games (caste system). However Indians/Hindus are well known to respect all differences in how to practice knowledge / religion and co-exist lovingly with eachother.
India stores alot of the ancient knowledge, as do China, in modified form. But, much of it is not practiced anymore as it was in the ancient times. The country had been in decline long before the British took over. So the best approach is to combine the knowledge with present-day sciencific knowledge, which is really the strict logical approach of the ancients as well as the scientific method.
I only wish present day scientists will soon really open their eyes to the enormous storehouse of knowledge that is in the Vedas, and the wealth of spiritual thoughts that is there for everyone.
Unfortunately, caloric restriction only raises the life expectancy of rodents in the laboratory, not when exposed to natural conditions. While it reduces risk of cancer, it also drastically reduces the effectiveness of the immune system at fighting off infection (and the resulting stresses which, in turn, re-raise the cancer risk.)
This has been known for decades by those educated in food & nutrition science. Unfortunately, the news has apparently not spread widely in other fields.
I am following a lakto-ovo vegetarian lifestyle myself, and can't really say that I'm missing flesh at all. Combine it with drinking lots of water, and your body will become VERY healthy. You will notice the difference within weeks.
However, key to a good diet is enough proteins. Too many young girls start eating only pizza, salads, pasta, etc. and get malnutrition as a result from going "veggie". A veggie-diet without enough proteins and variation is no veggie-diet in my book. Correct veggie recepees have been used for thousands of years in the East, based on the Vedic Science of Ayur-veda (knowledge about life).
Btw, what is the point of extending your lifetime, if you're miserable? Quality time, living here and now, is much more important than the length of your life - which is only fear of something so natural as death.
Not to mention the environmental issues when corporations release cheap products with tight DRM that could be put to better use than the limitations they built-in.
The point of Free Software is to keep the software free. Ie, not being able to be hijacked by corporations to:
* use it on a webpage without releasing source * use it on locked-down hardware that the customer never owns * any other loophole that goes against the spirit of the GPL which has historically been abused in the past for GPL v2
GPL v3 is simply a needed adjustment that is long overdue.
GPL v3 is not out to disallow DRMed hardware, just as GPL v2 is not against copyright.
GPL v3 is against hijacking of supposedly Free Software. Without GPL v3, the loophole in GPL v2 is only going to get bigger and bigger..
Skeptical people might ask how improving mindfulness will solve political problems. The fact is, it won't-- it will just put them in perspective.
Can the Right System solve our political problems for us? It can certainly help us on the way, but any working system will have the right mindset to back it up. While with any crooked mindset, you can pervert anything.
Just sitting in a cave somewhere feeling great while doing breathing excercises and meditating will do very little practical. Also sitting in front of the PC at home complaining on an online forum does much the same.
It has everything with our mindfullness and actions, not just mindfullness alone. True spirituality doesn't just go into the mind only, but also out in the body and earth. That is why it is nowadays such incredibly rare to find someone who really live that, and if you do, you are very lucky. Even that is taken as a concept by many, and get stuck in the head, justifying doing anything just because "I know". Best is to realize "I don't really know, but I would like to know.."
Visit the link in my.sig. By learning the Art of Living, you can bring more awareness into your own life and into our own world. Ok, we probably got too much awareness now you might say, right? There doesn't go a day we don't hear about something awful about this world.
Right awareness is focusing on what is good, positive. Around you and otherwise in the world. Media is filled with negative awareness, which we should fight actively to turn both in our daily lives and globally. Of coure, for this to happen also, we need something positive _action_ to happen:-)
First you have to strengthen the individual, so this can go as a positive force out in the world. Every human has capacity to love and nurture eachother, but our stress is a layer in our body and consciousness.. Deprive a man of sleep for 3 days, and even the most harmonious and joyful being will become the worst... So we need to find ways to relieve stress and come back to ourselves again.
With breathing excercises, precious knowledge about life and much more, the Art of Living course is just fantastic in my experiences. It is unique in that this volunteer organisation is handling the very issues that we're facing in the world today: erosion of human values, how to rebuild faith in humanity and bring every religion and faction together instead of destroying this beautiful world. We're all in the same boat, let's start acting like it.
First rate. Just do it while you can!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living Foundation and International Association for Human Values, has been nominated for the peace price many times. However, just like with Mahatma Gandhi, there seems to be a strong resistance to letting Indians getting the peace price.
Karma is excellent. If you really care about the world, maybe it's time to shift a bit of perspective?
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Why not learn more from native people, and from people from the Far East. Spirituality is clearly the way to go, educate people and the best thing we can all start right now with the Art of Living. If not for others, it will save your own peace of mind & give joy and please & babes!!:
Just get back to sleep. This release is for those who are awake and want to contribute I guess.
That's why I laugh when people spot human-sized UFO craft. If there are UFOs here, they're microscopic.
Assumptions are just that, assumptions. You can laugh all you want, but to me, it just shows one more scientific dogma. The attitude of "knowing it all" is sadly very prevalent here on Slashdot, and probably why so many spend time writing here, instead of discovering new stuff.
The problem is lack of creativity. In 0.5 seconds, I thought of nano-UFOs. Send one, or trillions of those, and let them dig into a moon or planet to rebuilt itself into a fully fledged macro-sized "UFO". Or, maybe if you want to "recreate yourself in your own image", why not send out organic "bombs"? Etc. etc. There are so many possibilities when you dont restrict your mind.
Just because you cant think of it, doesnt mean it isnt possible or thinkable. Please free your mind! There is so much more to know than we already know! And instead of giving focus to more effective ways to kill people, why not science of life?
It used to be the opposite you know. Global Warming scientists used to have a very hard time getting grants in the 80s and beginning og the 90s. The entrenched opinion at the time, especially in the US senate and commercial sector, was that anybody researching Global Warming was an environmental nutjob. The opinion in the leadership of USA (not population mind you) was so strong, they passed up on the Kyoto agreement and other global initiatives, claiming these measures would cost too much.
Its incredible how few people is able to look at something dispassionately, which is the only way to reach an objective conclusion. Scientists of all should know that, but fail, just as much as religious fanatics do sometimes.
Fact is, and native indians and aboriginals have mentioned this for the past hundred years: Our way of living is slowly suffocating this planet. Man has managed to survive for the past ten thousands of years, maybe millions, but now were reaching a critical point. We need to grow respect for the planet, for our environment, eachother and ourselves. We need to learn from those who are wise.
Please, do not make sequels of these games. Ive stopped gaming and am now happily enjoying yoga and meditation. My life is now complete and perfect, please, please dont botch it for me now!
:(
Ultima Underworld I & II
Star Control I & II
Another World
Best games ever. If they ever come in a decent sequel, I will have to start playing again
Yeah, well, if they continue to hold it up, it may not get a chance due to lack of patients.
Uh, the medical companies are thriving on sickness, not health.
Instead of Health Care, it should be called Sickness & Death Care. Norwegians got it right: Sykehus - Sick Homes. Its just that people dont realize what theyre really going to..
Maybe then people would open their eyes and start caring for their body and mind through Yoga. The best medicine has always been prevention, care and happiness, and always will. Much of the pharmaceutical industry is really just a parasite.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Reading all this makes me SOO happy I am vegetarian. And I`m going to eat a lot more organic/ecologic/biodynamic food. It tastes better and do the body better.
The rest of you are setting yourselves up for a big mess, but what can we say. You`re ridiculing what you don`t understand and using technology just because you can, like a little child with a big gun.
"I hate to say this and break your rose colored glasses but those rich CEOs living in their mansions, driving cars that cost more then you will make in ten years are not miserable."
They may not be miserable now. But do true happiness and joy rely on material comfort and a jet-set life? True joy will not rely on something external, because when that one day disappears, it turns into misery.
I`ve visited cities in India where people have been begging for money for food and clothes, yet, there`s a liveliness, an innocence and a spark of joy that is very rare in Western countries. They are begging, as a profession, not fighting for survival. Everyone gets food and rarely do you see someone completely forgotten.
Now, nothing of these circumstances are better than the others. But clearly, when you have knowledge of yourself and how your own mind works, you can better cope with life and find true joy, regardless of how rich or poor you are. The poor people have to do this more, because their life depends so much more on their relatives, friends and neighbours. But we, being rich, really have the opportunity to use our resources and use more time to explore ourselves fully.
Whenever someone speaks of truth, it is not meant in terms of rules - what you can do, or can`t do.
:-)
But rather, cause and effect.
Just like hitting your head with a hammer will cause pain, so do actions which are often associated with guilt and remorse.
What has been done to death is to take what someone says as a rule, and then forgo common sense - yes, even feel guily for not doing what other people say! However, any text should be understood to open your mind, not close it. Someone who makes you aware of your freedom, will not tell you what you can`t do, but will tell you that hammering your own head is the source of pain.
So do as you want, just be aware.
If you chose to lie, you deceieve others. You push a view on them that twists them from the truth, from reality.
You have then already lost. Whatever you think you can win that is not based on truth, will not prevail and will always be there in the back haunting you. Any pleasure you get out of it will come with a hook, back to the shady past.
Truth will set people free. Basically, the only evil, or rather the ignorance, in this world is when people believe the means justifies the ends. Nobody kills or steals just out of spite, or if they do, they have some serious hurt they are not able to cope with. Such self-destructive behaviour should be pitied and helped, not condemned or judged. Jesus allegedly said: For you shall yourself be judged - or put another way: When you judge others, you will judge yourself just as harsh - it's just that time makes the illusion of it not already happening.
Just happily playing God`s advocate. =)
What I`m missing here is some clarity to the solution. It seems what they are doing is extending their patents, by adding a few claims to something which has already been covered by a patent. Like added a Gel Capsule to a pill, and then patent that. Clearly, this is not something "novel", and therefore not patentable. This practice of patents, which is happening in every industry infested by patents clearly needs to stop. Why should I be able to have a government granted monopoly for 20 years, and then be able to extend that by merely adding a Gel Capsule? That`s 20+20 years for basically the same pill!
More common sense into law. Law was never meant to be a ruleset that would split people, but it has always been misused in such manners. That`s what we need to fight tooth and nail!
Another suggestion is to have different patent-laws according to industry. Clearly pharmaseuticals need more protection than software, which is already protected through copyright. This means that the period of the patents can differ, say, like 15 years for medicals and max 5 years for software, if ever for software. (RSA comes to mind as one of the few ones in the software field)
You also need to define what is really a novel invention worth protecting, for every industry.
A patent should never be allowed to exist if there is impossible to construct an alternative, ie. the patent is protecting the _idea_, and not the implementation. If such patents, they should be voided on that reason.
The Patent Office should stop being an income source for the Government, and should get _more_ money from dismissing patents than from granting them.
These are just suggestions, but something very drastic needs to be done. How can we live with such a medieval system that spurs greed and hinders inventions? Something must be done now!
Not everyone can become a success by marketshare and hype alone, and then never deliver the actual promised products. For most of us, failure is just another step towards success. So even if this $100 laptop becomes a failure, it doesn't matter. More exposure towards the poorer countries, more exposure that the Western countries take more money OUT of such countries, than is going in, more exposure to corrupt leaders which makes any sudden fix unattainable, and lots and lots learned from the project, which can result in even cheaper laptops with higher specs.
It's too easy to criticize when someone does good. That to actually do good in this world, you have to fight, and fight, and fight, and fight. And we get stronger every day.
It is all just One. Within time, creating both the casual observer, and her false illusion to be one of many.
:-)
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
Just happy to share the Art of Living
John lives in Norway. He's still having problems travelling to USA because of his "crimes" (making a GUI for a DVD-decrypter... Someone else broke the actual code).
With Infosoc (can you say "1984"?) and other laws being passed in EU, which Norway adopts per default, it is not hard to imagine this can soon be illegal in Norway too, though I'm not sure how the law is right now.
I'd also just like to add, that vedic science, being a science based on logic, observation and testable results as well as intuitive knowledge (which maybe not so testable today because of our lack of consciousness), does not deal with dogmatic prescriptions: eat this, don't eat that. etc. This may change due to circumstances, so there's never one way to do things.
;*) Or if you take care of your body and mind (and HOW to do it), things will run more smoothly and you will have more energy to impress people and make things happen (with experience and good intentions at least). It is overall cheaper and more comfortable, than relying on doctors, pills and surgery.
;*)
It is originally more of a scientific description of cause and effect. That if you pull the trigger while pointing at your toe, it will hurt alot
The law of karma is also very simple. That whatever you do to other people, will come back to you one day. If you hurt other people, your will become paranoid and tense, ultimately poisoning your own body-mind system. While if you heal other people, your own growth will be exponential and you will learn to know unconditional love.
Many people are lost in the ideas of dogmatic beliefs and superstition, which is limiting consciouness and way of life. Maybe some people need a security-blanket, but it doesn't create peace on earth - or in the minds of people
Those who reads this will be few, but I just want to get this down to clear my own thoughts on the matter. =)
I understand that the Vedic diets are NOT a protection against this. When they were developed in India the grain had enough insect parts and animal droppings to provide the required levels of B12. (Indeed, it still may.) But under US food inspection laws such contaminants are so vigorously suppressed (to prevent disease from bacteria and parasites) that these same diets become dangerously low in B12.
;)
There are many different thoughts on Ayurveda. Some ayurvedic doctors recommend eating meat (usually due to personal preference), while others, recommend eating vegetarian (especially combined with yoga/meditation). If you're sick, anyone of them might recommend eating meat in order to restore the body more quickly in some circumstances. Jains are strictly non-violent, and will not use animal clothing, and only eat fallen fruit. Different people, different needs I guess..
Cows are also considered holy in India, and milk consumed on a high level. However, it has been known that cows milk is not very digestable, so an ayurvedic practitioner will likely recommend to heat it up a bit before consumation. I usually do this myself, although not when eating ice-cream
Besides from milk, cheese and egg, you may also get B12 from Spirulina, from which Bramhulst (a juice company in Europe) sells fresh juice, or you can buy them in capsules (not as easy for the body to absorb though). Spirulina will also help cleaning out heavy metals from the body.
One thing to understand is however, that there is not one ayurveda, or one vedic knowledge. It is a huge compilation of different books/verses of humongous magnitude, most of them gone in time. There are many different ways to practice it, some twarted by superstition and power-games (caste system). However Indians/Hindus are well known to respect all differences in how to practice knowledge / religion and co-exist lovingly with eachother.
India stores alot of the ancient knowledge, as do China, in modified form. But, much of it is not practiced anymore as it was in the ancient times. The country had been in decline long before the British took over. So the best approach is to combine the knowledge with present-day sciencific knowledge, which is really the strict logical approach of the ancients as well as the scientific method.
I only wish present day scientists will soon really open their eyes to the enormous storehouse of knowledge that is in the Vedas, and the wealth of spiritual thoughts that is there for everyone.
Unfortunately, caloric restriction only raises the life expectancy of rodents in the laboratory, not when exposed to natural conditions. While it reduces risk of cancer, it also drastically reduces the effectiveness of the immune system at fighting off infection (and the resulting stresses which, in turn, re-raise the cancer risk.)
/ 09/calorierestriction.php
This has been known for decades by those educated in food & nutrition science. Unfortunately, the news has apparently not spread widely in other fields.
It all depends how you do it:
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/07
I am following a lakto-ovo vegetarian lifestyle myself, and can't really say that I'm missing flesh at all. Combine it with drinking lots of water, and your body will become VERY healthy. You will notice the difference within weeks.
However, key to a good diet is enough proteins. Too many young girls start eating only pizza, salads, pasta, etc. and get malnutrition as a result from going "veggie". A veggie-diet without enough proteins and variation is no veggie-diet in my book. Correct veggie recepees have been used for thousands of years in the East, based on the Vedic Science of Ayur-veda (knowledge about life).
Btw, what is the point of extending your lifetime, if you're miserable? Quality time, living here and now, is much more important than the length of your life - which is only fear of something so natural as death.
No great idea, discovery or invention ever was came from hard-core sceptics.
Not to mention the environmental issues when corporations release cheap products with tight DRM that could be put to better use than the limitations they built-in.
The point of Free Software is to keep the software free. Ie, not being able to be hijacked by corporations to:
* use it on a webpage without releasing source
* use it on locked-down hardware that the customer never owns
* any other loophole that goes against the spirit of the GPL which has historically been abused in the past for GPL v2
GPL v3 is simply a needed adjustment that is long overdue.
GPL v3 is not out to disallow DRMed hardware, just as GPL v2 is not against copyright.
GPL v3 is against hijacking of supposedly Free Software.
Without GPL v3, the loophole in GPL v2 is only going to get bigger and bigger..
But I don't know, I just contributed some stuff at the GPL v3 propsals: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-2.html
FSF is being VERY UNPRECEDENTED open about this, and is even accepting comments. So this is your chance to change the future via the keyboard...
Get Your Source Code Here
;)
:D
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307
So "Security through Obscurity" wins after all?
Great... Just great....
You better be quick though, to beat my nightly apt-get.
Idea coming in: Distros should get the changes FIRST, then the developers announce it 1 day afterwards.. That would be perfect
Everyone here who spotted it from the time of the first article gets +5 perception points.
Being cynical, isn't perception. IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND.
Remember that and keep an open mind instead..
Skeptical people might ask how improving mindfulness will solve political problems. The fact is, it won't-- it will just put them in perspective.
Can the Right System solve our political problems for us? It can certainly help us on the way, but any working system will have the right mindset to back it up. While with any crooked mindset, you can pervert anything.
Just sitting in a cave somewhere feeling great while doing breathing excercises and meditating will do very little practical. Also sitting in front of the PC at home complaining on an online forum does much the same.
It has everything with our mindfullness and actions, not just mindfullness alone. True spirituality doesn't just go into the mind only, but also out in the body and earth. That is why it is nowadays such incredibly rare to find someone who really live that, and if you do, you are very lucky. Even that is taken as a concept by many, and get stuck in the head, justifying doing anything just because "I know". Best is to realize "I don't really know, but I would like to know.."
Visit the link in my .sig. By learning the Art of Living, you can bring more awareness into your own life and into our own world. Ok, we probably got too much awareness now you might say, right? There doesn't go a day we don't hear about something awful about this world.
:-)
Right awareness is focusing on what is good, positive. Around you and otherwise in the world. Media is filled with negative awareness, which we should fight actively to turn both in our daily lives and globally. Of coure, for this to happen also, we need something positive _action_ to happen
First you have to strengthen the individual, so this can go as a positive force out in the world. Every human has capacity to love and nurture eachother, but our stress is a layer in our body and consciousness.. Deprive a man of sleep for 3 days, and even the most harmonious and joyful being will become the worst... So we need to find ways to relieve stress and come back to ourselves again.
With breathing excercises, precious knowledge about life and much more, the Art of Living course is just fantastic in my experiences. It is unique in that this volunteer organisation is handling the very issues that we're facing in the world today: erosion of human values, how to rebuild faith in humanity and bring every religion and faction together instead of destroying this beautiful world. We're all in the same boat, let's start acting like it.
First rate. Just do it while you can!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living Foundation and International Association for Human Values, has been nominated for the peace price many times. However, just like with Mahatma Gandhi, there seems to be a strong resistance to letting Indians getting the peace price.
Karma is excellent. If you really care about the world, maybe it's time to shift a bit of perspective?